Events: Events

Week of Annual Meetings of European Tuberculosis Networks

System Account — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:29:51 GMT

The Week of Annual Meetings of European Tuberculosis Networks is a joint effort of ECDC and its international partners to bring together European TB experts to discuss the common goal of eliminating TB in Europe.

Individual decision-making and childhood vaccination

System Account — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:57:21 GMT

ECDC is organising a meeting among invited experts to exchange cross-disciplinary perspectives on the issue of MMR vaccination refusal among the general European population.

Third Joint ECDC-WHO Europe influenza surveillance meeting

System Account — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:16:36 GMT

The third annual joint influenza surveillance meeting will focus on virological and epidemiological aspects of influenza surveillance, influenza vaccination, and new developments in the field of influenza prevention and control.

5th Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Network Meeting

System Account — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:55:13 GMT

The 5th Annual Food and Water-borne Diseases and Zoonoses (FWD) Network Meeting will pull together epidemiologists and microbiologists from EU, EEA and some non-EU countries.

Third Global Influenza Seroepidemiology Expert Meeting (CONSISE)

System Account — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:17:20 GMT

A two-day regional workshop of CONSISE (the Consortium for the Standardization of Influenza Seroepidemiology), including regional partners from East and South East Asia actively engaged in the development of the influenza seroepidemiology protocols and laboratory standardisation work or willing to undertake field work.

World Tuberculosis Day 2013

System Account — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:52:08 GMT

Falling on the 24 March each year, World Tuberculosis Day aims at raising public awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis.

Third meeting on use of vaccines for prevention of influenza

System Account — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:14:32 GMT

On 11 February 2013, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and representatives of Vaccines Europe meet at ECDC in Stockholm for a regular scheduled meeting about the use of vaccines for prevention of influenza.

Consultation on laboratory capacity building for malaria diagnosis in the EU/EEA

System Account — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:15:08 GMT

The consultation aims to assess the needs and requirements of laboratory capacity building initiatives for malaria parasite laboratory testing in the EU/EEA.

Thirty-second meeting ECDC Advisory Forum

System Account — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:20:28 GMT

World AIDS Day

System Account — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:58:27 GMT

Twenty-sixth meeting ECDC Management Board

System Account — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:30:03 GMT

European Antibiotic Awareness Day 2012

System Account — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:49:56 GMT

The European Antibiotic Awareness Day is marked annually on 18 November to raise awareness about the threat to public health of antibiotic resistance and prudent antibiotic use.

2012 European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE)

System Account — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:31:57 GMT

Second joint meeting of the Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infections (ARHAI) Networks

System Account — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:22:39 GMT

The meeting will address a wide range of issues concerning antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial consumption and healthcare-associated infections.02_Session%202_Jans+Latour_HALT-2%20methodology.pdf

Conference on childhood immunisation: progress, challenges and priorities for further action

System Account — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:40:05 GMT

European Health Forum Gastein

System Account — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:17:38 GMT

Thirty-first meeting ECDC Advisory Forum

System Account — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:19:16 GMT

3rd annual meeting of the European Legionnaires’ Disease Surveillance Network (ELDSNet)

System Account — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:55:50 GMT

EPIET-EUPHEM Project Review Week

System Account — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:14:20 GMT

Nordic Vaccine Meeting

System Account — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:00:33 GMT

The biannual Nordic Vaccine Meetings have offered possibilities for vaccinology and public health experts from the Nordic and related countries to meet and discuss the latest news in vaccine development and programmatic use.

19th International AIDS Conference

System Account — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:51:38 GMT

The International AIDS Conference gathers those working in the field of HIV, as well as policy makers, persons living with HIV and other individuals committed to ending the pandemic. The AIDS 2012 programme will present new scientific knowledge and will offer opportunities for dialogue on the major issues facing the global response to HIV.

6th Conference of The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease European Region

System Account — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:29:07 GMT

Scientific meeting to discuss the approaches to the control of tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases.

EPIET Sampling Module

System Account — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:54:58 GMT

Twenty-fifth meeting ECDC Management Board

System Account — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:28:16 GMT

Annual meeting of healthcare-associated infections surveillance network (HAI-Net) and HAI-Net coordination group

System Account — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:15:14 GMT

The annual meeting of the healthcare-associated infections surveillance network (HAI-Net) and of the HAI-Net coordination group will take place in Stockholm on 19-21 June 2012.

ECDC Summer School

System Account — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:33:48 GMT

Attachments: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/press/events/Lists/Events/Attachments/204/ECDC Summer School 2012 schedule.pdf

Joint ECDC/WHO Surveillance Network for Tuberculosis meeting

System Account — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:06:21 GMT

Expert consultation on specific case definitions for dengue and chikungunya fever surveillance in the European Union

System Account — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:42:29 GMT

Initial Management in Public Health Microbiology

System Account — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:07:46 GMT

Second Joint ECDC/WHO Europe influenza meeting

System Account — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:55:04 GMT

On 30 May - 1 June ECDC and the WHO Regional Office for Europe (Regional Office) organise a joint annual influenza meeting in Warsaw for the countries in Western, Central and South Eastern Europe.

Expert meeting Chlamydia control in Europe

System Account — Mon, 28 May 2012 15:40:37 GMT

Comprehensive Approach to Disease Prevention in the context of Sexual Health

System Account — Tue, 22 May 2012 08:23:13 GMT

Annual I-MOVE network meeting

System Account — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:16:05 GMT

Between 14^th and 16^th of May the I-MOVE network as well as a number of leading international experts in the field of influenza vaccine effectiveness will be meeting in Rome to discuss results of the 2011-12 season and to plan for the next season’s activities.

Live Q&A session: Building trust in vaccines and the services that deliver them

System Account — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:42:51 GMT

Following European Immunization Week 2012, the European Centre for Disease Prevention, the WHO Regional Office for Europe and Control and the UNICEF Regional Office for CEE/CIS invite you to participate in a Live Q&A session on the EIW campaign site.

Annual meeting of the European Network for Diagnostics of "Imported" Viral Diseases (ENIVD)

System Account — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:23:46 GMT

The Annual meeting of the European Network for Diagnostics of "Imported" Viral Diseases (ENIVD) will take place on 10 – 11 May 2012 in Riga, Latvia

Joint annual meeting of ECDC-funded networks: ENIVD and VBORNET

System Account — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:27:23 GMT

On May 7-11, in Riga, the annual general meeting of two ECDC-funded networks will take place: VBORNET (the European Network for Arthropod Vector Surveillance for Human Public Health funded by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) and ENIVD-CLNR (the European Network of laboratories for outbreak assistance and support).

Prevention through Childhood Vaccination - Defining Doctors’ Roles in the Stakeholder Debate

System Account — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:24:50 GMT

Thirtieth meeting ECDC Advisory Forum

System Account — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:17:18 GMT

'Free Thinkers for Measles Elimination' meeting

System Account — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:57:34 GMT

ECDC convened a meeting of public health experts and successful professionals with experience in management, marketing, campaigning, behaviour change and other professional areas. The purpose of the event was to generate new ideas for promoting measles vaccination in Europe.

EUPHEM Training Module on Biorisk and Quality Management

System Account — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:36:56 GMT

European Immunisation Week 2012

System Account — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:32:10 GMT

ECDC is marking European Immunisation Week with a focus on assisting EU Member States eliminate measles in their population. The root cause of the continued measles transmission in the EU is the sub-optimal uptake of MMR vaccination over several years.

Twenty-fourth meeting ECDC Management Board

System Account — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:25:49 GMT

EPIET/EUPHEM Time series analysis module

System Account — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:16:18 GMT

Urban TB Control

System Account — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:55:00 GMT

ECDC is working jointly with four cities in the EU to celebrate World TB Day.

ECDC-WHO/EURO twitter chat on tuberculosis

System Account — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:06:52 GMT

Join our live twitter chat ahead of World Tuberculosis Day!

EPIET/EUPHEM Multivariable analysis module

System Account — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:57:33 GMT

Workshops for EPIS VPD and EPIS AMR-HAI

System Account — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:49:11 GMT

ICEID 2012 - International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases

System Account — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:55:26 GMT

Which infectious diseases are emerging? Who are they affecting? Why are they emerging? What can be done to control them?

Meeting and workshop on ECDC point prevalence survey (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in acute care hospitals

System Account — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:18:07 GMT

Training workshop on vaccine safety for Member States, building on the experience obtained in the ECDC vaccine safety project VAESCO

System Account — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:51:31 GMT

Twenty-ninth meeting ECDC Advisory Forum

System Account — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:14:39 GMT

Train-the-trainers - Epidemiological methods applied to vaccine preventable diseases

System Account — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:51:24 GMT

Workshop on global and regional HIV monitoring

System Account — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:59:18 GMT

Expert consultation on Plasmodium vivax transmission risk in Europe

System Account — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:26:56 GMT

The expert consultation on Plasmodium vivax transmission risk in Europe will take place in Stockholm on 17-18 January 2012.

Expert consultation on guidelines for surveillance of invasive mosquito

System Account — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:26:55 GMT

Twenty-eighth meeting ECDC Advisory Forum

System Account — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:08:41 GMT

Learning lessons of the ECDC vaccine safety study project (VAESCO II)

System Account — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:08:28 GMT

EPIET/EUPHEM module- Computer Tools In outbreak Investigations

System Account — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:09:43 GMT

Annual Meeting of the National Surveillance Coordinators

System Account — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:15:07 GMT

Eurovaccine 2011

System Account — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:59:02 GMT

World AIDS Day scientific seminar

System Account — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:08:10 GMT

This year the focus will be HIV and hepatitis prevention among people who inject drugs.

Antimicrobial consumption surveillance TESSy training

System Account — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:19:30 GMT

Communicable disease prevention among Roma

System Account — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:52:51 GMT

First joint meeting of the Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infections (ARHAI) Networks

System Account — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:01:48 GMT

This is the first joint annual plenary meeting of the EARS-Net and HAI-Net participants and the National Antimicrobial Resistance Focal Points.

Second expert consultation on Tick-borne diseases with emphasis on Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis

System Account — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:17:59 GMT

Workshop on Seasonal Influenza Vaccination

System Account — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:51:51 GMT

The workshop focuses on seasonal influenza vaccination in the EU and the December 2009 Council Recommendations on this subject.

Expert consultation: Breakthroughs in molecular epidemiology of human pathogens - How to translate into public health practice

System Account — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:37:36 GMT

The meeting brings together researchers, microbiologists and public health experts to discuss how public health can benefit from the recent scientific and technological advances in molecular microbiology, with special focus on the rapidly evolving next generation sequencing technology.

European Antibiotic Awareness Day 2011 – Launch event

System Account — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:59:49 GMT

The launch event of the fourth European Antibiotic Awareness Day will take place in Brussels and will follow the Commissioners’ Midday Press Briefing, where Commissioners Dalli will present the European Commission’s Action Plan to tackle Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).

Molecular surveillance strategy for human influenza

System Account — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:35:27 GMT

2nd Global Influenza Seroepidemiology Expert Meeting (attendance by Invitation)

System Account — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:07:22 GMT

ECDC Infectious Disease Modelling Meeting

System Account — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:03:56 GMT

How financial difficulties shape social determinants on communicable diseases

System Account — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:36:04 GMT

A pre-EUPHA conference workshop aimed at presenting results of ECDC works on socio-economic determinants and its impacts on infectious diseases control and prevention.

European Public Health Microbiology (EUPHEM)- ECDC stay module

System Account — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:07:40 GMT

2011 European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE)

System Account — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:59:46 GMT

European Public Health Microbiology (EUPHEM) Core Competency Development

System Account — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:05:13 GMT

European Public Health Microbiology (EUPHEM) - Core Competency Development for EUPHEM coordinators and host sites representatives

4th Annual Food and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Network Meeting

System Account — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:27:22 GMT

The meeting focuses on the epidemiology of campylobacteriosis, yersiniosis and shigellosis and the recent STEC/VTEC outbreak in Europe.

World Health Summit

System Account — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:02:21 GMT

Briefing and workshop Detection and assessment of public health threats in the European Union

System Account — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:43:18 GMT

Tackling seasonal influenza in Europe: Success stories from European countries

System Account — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:21:31 GMT

Expert meeting drug-related infectious diseases (DRID) key indicator

System Account — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:49:09 GMT

Workshop on Development of public health programmes for prevention and control of seasonal influenza

System Account — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:14:54 GMT

Influenza Workshop Week

System Account — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:56:38 GMT

Joint DG SANCO, EFSA and ECDC seminar - "Animal-to-human diseases: How does Europe protect its citizens?"

System Account — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:31:26 GMT

The use of vaccines for prevention of seasonal and pandemic influenza

System Account — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:10:45 GMT

On 3 October 2011 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and representatives of the European Vaccine Manufacturers met at ECDC in Stockholm for a regular scheduled meeting about the use of vaccines for prevention of seasonal and pandemic influenza. ECDC Director Marc Sprenger opened the meeting and ECDC influenza experts held different presentations, such as burden of influenza disease in the EU, risk groups for severe influenza disease, personal protective measures, pandemic influenza preparedness, seasonal influenza vaccines, communication.

The Declarations of Interest for ECDC Influenza Staff and the ECDC Director are available here under ECDC Transparency.

24th ESICM LIVES Annual Congress: ECDC meets the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)

System Account — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:15:01 GMT

Introduction to Intervention Epidemiology and Microbiology

System Account — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:47:24 GMT

European Respiratory Society (ERS), Annual Congress

System Account — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:15:15 GMT

Joint ECDC/WHO Regional Office for Europe Workshop on Pandemic Preparedness

System Account — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:50:01 GMT

Monitoring the HIV response in Europe

System Account — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:30:59 GMT

Health Protection 2011

System Account — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:52:33 GMT

Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction Conference 2011

System Account — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:55:28 GMT

Joint ECDC/WHO Regional Office for Europe Workshop on Pandemic Preparedness

System Account — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:47:01 GMT

Joint ECDC/WHO Regional Office for Europe Workshop on Pandemic Preparedness

System Account — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:44:58 GMT

Audio conference on clinical management of haemolytic uremic syndrome and severe Shiga toxin-producing E. coli infections, ECDC, 9 June 2011

System Account — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:14:50 GMT

Joint ECDC and WHO European regional influenza surveillance meeting

System Account — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:15:06 GMT

26th Meeting of the European Working Group for Legionella Infections (EWGLI)

System Account — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:29:03 GMT

2nd Annual Meeting of the European Legionnaires’ Disease Surveillance Network (ELDSNet)

System Account — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:14:28 GMT

Annual meeting of the joint ECDC/WHO Surveillance Network for Tuberculosis

System Account — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:05:00 GMT

12th Advanced Vaccinology Course

System Account — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:34:15 GMT

The Advanced Vaccinology Course or ADVAC is a two-week training programme for decision-makers, including academia, industry, governmental and non-governmental agencies, in all fields related to vaccines and vaccination, vaccine trials, new vaccines, vaccination strategies and policies, vaccine-specific issues

Risk perception and communication regarding vaccination decisions in the age of web 2.0

System Account — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:38:16 GMT

This interdisciplinary meeting focuses on the question of which factors impact risk perceptions regarding vaccination decisions in the specific context of the Internet. Moreover, it will discuss how risks and risk negations should be communicated on the Internet.